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Most undocumented immigrants in the United States try to keep a low profile, for some pretty obvious reasons. If you’re here contrary to immigration laws, the last thing you want to do is give immigration agents the opportunity to sweep you up and send you back where you came from. Not so Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, who famously outed himself as an illegal immigrant from the Philippines in a New York Times essay three years ago. Since then, he has been an outspoken activist for undocumented immigrants. A few days ago he went to the Texas border to report on the humanitarian crisis there involving unaccompanied minors. Early Tuesday, he got busted. There...

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